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Copy The 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture’s highest honor, has been granted to Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, founders of Lacaton & Vassal, the French duo renowned for their multiple sustainable housing projects and for the Palais de Tokyo, a contemporary art gallery in Paris. In their three decades of work, Lacaton & Vassal always prioritized the “ enrichment of human life”, benefiting the individual and supporting the evolution of the city. Good architecture is open open to life, open to enhance the freedom of anyone, where anyone can do what they need to do. It should not be demonstrative or imposing, but it must be something familiar, useful and beautiful, with the ability to quietly support the life that will take place within it. Anne Lacaton ....
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Source: Philippe Ruault Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are the winners of the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The decision to give architecture’s biggest prize to the French duo, who founded Lacaton & Vassal in 1987, was announced by Tom Pritzker, chair of sponsor the Hyatt Foundation, this afternoon. Source: Laurent Chalet Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal The pair are best known for their large-scale housing and cultural projects which always focus on reuse and other principles of sustainability. “By prioritising the enrichment of human life through a lens of generosity and freedom of use, they are able to benefit the individual socially, ecologically and economically, aiding the evolution of a city,” said today’s statement. ....